Cooking With Richard

Mito’s pork cooked for 5 hours, just bloody great:

Previously … swan feeds its pet fish, and video of our ducklings.

Someone please explain …

Swan feeds its fish pets in a zoo (bigger).

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what lives in your skin …?

Paul Smye-Rumsby, who lives in Dover, said: “It was about 08.15 when suddenly the bed shook violently. “I thought my wife had got cramp or something but then I saw the curtains were moving and the whole house was shaking. It lasted about 1.5 seconds..

When I was in Aomori four years ago there was a really huge earthquake near Sendai which shook the whole place for a minute. Screen capture from the TV:

Video of ducklings

Quite scary ….

Yes, with spring greens … After the rib on Sunday we had about 3lbs of beef left over so I made steak and ale pie with the remainder including the greens.

Instant onigiri!

I don’t believe it …

Sort of how I want my tombstone to look, I suppose.

From this old recipe with a home-made cinnamon custard which was really rather good.

from G Gibson butchers in Watford market.

Hugh Furry Whittingstall recipe for fish pie, time-consuming but delicious:

An appearance by a chaffinch. We have them living in the high trees around the house but they very very rarely come down to ground level. Well we had a chaffinch couple feeding on the ground today. I got these photographs with my 300mm lens from the upstairs window:

A greattit feeding:

I was watching the bluetits today. They are proud and happy parents, but I saw the mother (below) who had previously been feeding her chick sitting on top of the tree, chirping desperately. It may be that she was looking for her baby …

Recipe which I adapted very loosely for this.